This is an analysis of the poem The Khaki Boys Who Were Not At The Front that begins with:
Oh! it is not just the men who face the guns,
Not the fighters at the Front alone, to-day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdXcd defde Xfedfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011011101 10101010101 10101110010111 11101110101 11101110101 11111010001 111100100111 111010101010101 111000010101 01101011111 11101100101 11101000001 11101110010111 10011010101 10101010101 11101110111 10111010111 111111001110001 10101110001 10101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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